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From: crouch@crunchie.axion.bt.co.uk (Chris Rouch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Shape extension is slooooooooooooooow
Message-ID: <1990Feb26.095559.17426@axion.bt.co.uk>
Date: 26 Feb 90 09:55:59 GMT
References: <1064@esatst.yc.estec.nl> <1990Feb21.120023.3919@axion.bt.co.uk> <9002221350.AA01037@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <1064@esatst.yc.estec.nl>, arne@yc.estec.nl (Arne Lundberg) writes:
> In article <9002221350.AA01037@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes:
> >
> >    Shape under HP-UX is slow. Like it can take >
> >    30 seconds to refresh xmh after pulling down a menu if the menubutton is
> >    oval. Similarly with shaped icons.
> >
> >I just tried xmh against our topcat, and it might have been
marginally slower
> >than on my Sun 3/60, but certainly under 1 second.
> 
> I have also found the round buttons unuseably slow on my mono HP
> 9000/340.  I have now found out that if I start the server with -bs -su
> to disable Backing Store and Save Unders the speed becomes much more
> reasonable?
> 
> Could this be the reason for this apperant disagreement?

I suspect so. I've just started the server with -bs -su and the
difference is staggering. Refresh rate is now, as Bob says, less than 1
second, rather than the 30 seconds I was getting before.

Chris
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